AI agent traffic could be 1,000X human traffic in just five years, according to @Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince. @jennsanasie sat down with @eastdakota to talk about what happens when machines become the internet’s biggest users, and why that could upend everything from how we pay for information to privacy, small businesses and the future of media. Plus, where stablecoins and crypto fit into the agent economy. 00:00 - Cloudflare's Matthew Prince Joins CoinDesk Spotlight 01:48 - Why Agents Don't Click on Ads 03:02 - Bot Traffic Passed Human Traffic Way Ahead of Schedule 04:14 - From COVID to ChatGPT, and Why the Web Is Growing Again 06:43 - What Happens When the Users Are All Machines? 08:24 - The Internet's Tragedy of the Commons 10:47 - Building a Payments Network Bigger Than Visa 11:36 - Will AI Agents Only Read the Cheapest Information? 12:54 - The $1,200 AI Budget and the Developing World 15:07 - Is AI Heading for a Black Mirror Future? 16:46 - Can Small Businesses Survive an Agentic Internet? 20:00 - Decentralization Alone Can't Save the Internet 22:45 - The World Is “Overly Paranoid” About AI 24:37 - Why Cybersecurity Gets Scarier Before It Gets Better 26:19 - Sci-Fi, Star Trek, and the Helpful Robot 28:18 - Will AI Agents Pay in Stablecoins? 30:24 - Why Cloudflare Won't Pick Crypto Winners 32:09 - How Agents Could Bring Privacy Back 35:04 - From an Attention Economy to a Knowledge Economy